“Cold facts” have infiltrated SD

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Published May 2, 2024 at 8:32 a.m.

Media. TV4's “Cold facts” claims to have wallraffed the Sweden Democrats to reveal that the party runs “troll factories”.

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TV4 has on social media released a trailer for an episode to be broadcast on Tuesday next week.

The trailer shows how a reporter at Kalla fakta “goes undercover” and gets a job on the SD-linked Youtube channel Riks.

< p>– It is a way to make a party and its communication suspicious, but no there are no trolls in here, says SD's communications manager Joakim Wallerstein in the program.

But this is revealed in the upcoming program as ” lie”, according to TV4, and the reporter is said to show with a hidden camera how to “manipulate the opinions of young voters”.

Sweden Democrats has denied the information about a troll factory. Cold facts goes undercover and reveals with a hidden camera what happens inside the party to manipulate the opinions of young voters. pic.twitter.com/NIW15o9P93

— Cold facts (@kallafakta) May 1, 2024

On the same day that the trailer was released, on Wednesday, a longer interview was published in Aftonbladet with SD's communications manager Joakim Wallerstein. In that interview, Wallerstein says that the party supports influencers who spread the party's “perspective and policy” and that it is not always open that SD stands behind the message.

– We work with influencers, real people, who say things. You can interpret that as a troll army, but you sit in my office and see that there are no armies here right away, he tells the newspaper.